Still a fair amount of rain today but I was lucky enough to catch 3 rainbows when the sun came back out

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Belmont, CA - October 2020

Category: Single/Stacked (sort of? I'll explain)

STORY:

I had planned a photo down in Quechee, Vermont with the Milky Rising over the gorge, but I was too early and didn't have the energy or motivation to wait 3 hours. I also live about 2 hours away, so I decided to try and capture the Milky Way rising over the bridge. I couldn't believe how much traffic came through at 11:30 pm EST. This was my favorite shot of the light trails crossing the bridge. This is a single frame, but as I was editing the photo in Lightroom I saved multiple edits. I liked the last 5 edits and blended them together in PS to get blend the golden core and the faded bluish night sky. So that's why I added "stacked" as a category even though it's the same still frame.

I think I'll go back in a few months to try and get the shot I had originally planned.

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Solid, liquid, gas, i.e., snow, water, clouds…and cold and wind and rocks. That was Trinidad today. 14 November. The time of year when the elements as atmospheric forces become unruly and dispense their “ugliness” upon the landscape and all that is about it. Most would snap their collar up, turn their back to the chilling wind, and walk away in search of soonest shelter; preferably warm. I guess that’s one way to “look” at it. But it’s not nearly the only way to look at, or rather, to “see” what is at hand. Call it potential if you will. Perspective-potential? Yup. To be able to eek out something relatively pleasing (hopeful) out of what appears to be unpleasing (hopeless). What was it Andy Dufresne said, "Get busy living, or get busy dying.” Yeah. I know. I got it, but don't get it. The doctrine of divine, unblemished sunshine or nothing at all – still? – reigns supreme, though I say "Sic semper tyrannis!" and go my way come hell or high water; rain or shine(ola). By crikey! I will apply my mind and all I’ve installed therein to what is before me to do what I have come to do: capture the scene regardless of inclemency. That’s right: improvise, adapt, overcome. And what I “saw” here was a teeny-tiny train conducting its Sisyphean exercise in the midst of this primordial landscape misshapen by unimaginable cataclysmic forces, weather notwithstanding. So what about the train? Seems completely irrelevant, save to provide a pedestrian perspective of how infinitely “small” man and his machine are in sardonic comparison, and I kinda like trains too. (14Nov17 ©)

Oakland, CA - March 2019

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Standing in an open field of bluebonnets and taking photos during a thunder/lightning storm probably not wise, but that’s precisely what I did Friday night. I managed to capture my first ever bolts of lightning before a heavy downpour began, may try again sometime.

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Beautiful sunset, mountains, and trees!

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Get the hell outta Dodge!

Tornado warned storm near Dodge, ND...... with tornado sirens going off as I took this picture 😱

Dodge ND

Category: Scenery

6-28-18

Casey Helling, Golden Valley

Another gorgeous fiery red sunset, and a few gulls.

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We always love finding old Coca-Cola #signage as it takes us right back to the time when the company gave these signs away for free to businesses that sold their product. All the small businesses had to do was add their own copy, usually in the form of enamel #lettering that was also supplied by #cocacola. #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signcollective #typevstime #ipulledoverforthis #gas_food_lodging #trb_ipoft_signs #guardiancities #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #vintage #signsofgrime #myfeatureshoot #filthyfacades

Belmont, CA - October 2020

Another peaceful sunset.

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An amazing day in Santa Fe!

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A minute past midnight conductor Ryan Reierson rolls the Eastern Washington Gateway Scoot train by at Fictenberg (most likely a misspelling of the German Fichtenberg) under a cloudless very starry night. The 30-second exposure sends the train into warp speed though its actual speed hovers around 10 miles an hour. Out here, though near US Hwy 2, it can get unnerving in the black of night when you’re alone, waiting for the train, its headlight searching out the night as it makes its way to you surely, but ever so slowly as the coyotes, cougars and other curious creatures of the night make their unseen presence known. Soon the rails begin to wake in snaps and pops exponentially as the weight of the train nears. As the procession comes into earshot the squeaking and squawking locomotive running gear immixed with the grumbling and whining of their prime movers followed by the long line of cars rocking and rolling, drawbars dropping here and there on account of less than favorable track alignment and cross elevation. In minutes the squealing flanges and droning diesels have passed back into the darkness and the critters of the night take off where they left, but not before the time-honored “Good Roll-By at Fictenberg, 328” is given and the distinctive crackle of the radio relays the engineer’s confirmation. “Roger that! Good roll-by at Fictenberg. See you down the road, 328 out.” as the smell of diesel exhaust lingers in the cool air. (©19Apr17)

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Tranquility!

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Another relaxing day at the lake, fishing and sunset!

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Arriving just in time to pixilate this electrifying capture, an eastbound BNSF stack sees green at the east end of double track on the Columbia River Sub. Already, the hiss of releasing brakes slithers through the blackness as Zeus hurls a brace of negatively-charged cloud-to-ground lighting bolts that crack the scene like a broken mirror. Undisturbed, the hogger gets his mile-long snake of stacks slipping away towards Spokane. (© 08Jun18)

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You know you’re in Texas when....

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This ‪#‎barber‬ shop not only had an amazing old ‪#‎sign‬ and ‪#‎handpainted‬ gold leaf lettering in the window but also had stenciled ‪#‎barbershop‬ tools including scissors, razors and brushes along the top of the roll gate. We also loved all the old ‪#‎signage‬ in the windows showing the variety of ‪#‎hair‬ cuts and styles they specialized in. 35 mm film photo is from 2004 and appears in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". Sadly this Nostrand Avenue ‪#‎storefront‬ went out of business in 2006 and was replaced by an instant refund tax center with very bland signage. ‪#‎signgeeks‬ ‪#‎disappearingfaceofnewyork‬ ‪#‎jj_texttypographical‬ ‪#‎jj_doorsandwindows‬ ‪#‎type‬ ‪#‎typography‬ ‪#‎typevstime‬ ‪#‎font‬ ‪#‎tv_retrotype‬ ‪#‎tv_typography‬ ‪#‎ipulledoverforthis‬ ‪#‎signofgrime‬

02:56 crew change at Cole’s Crossing (homestead in the background) somewhere along US 2 between night and a barley dozen degree morning. In the 45 cab, Eastern Washington Gateway Engineer “Jay” Pospisil (aka Popsicle) and Conductor Scott Rohrig have just been briefed by and relieved the previous crew to continue the train’s trek west on the venerable “CW.” Some 2100 feet into the icy, countlessly pinholed-black, flashing-red Fred dutifully comms control-stand-perched Mary he’s good-to-go and Jay releases the binders throttle in opposite hand opens it to give his horses the gitty up. Just above the headlight I spot Orion’s belt and I pause to consider how much tonnage this inimitable ’69 LaGrange mare has hauled about murica while she proudly wore Espee’s iconic scarlet and grey dress, and how many tons she helped shove black and blue over Mullan Pass while stabled, fed and ploughing for Montana Rail Link? Here on the EWG, she still earns her keep: daily, for the foreseeable future. Rolling, and that unmistakable squeaking of flexing flexicoil trucks and EMD turbo whine fade and vanish into the arctic darkness, my image securely frozen in timeless time. (23Dec17 ©)

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Somewhere on the CW Sub

(© 21May18)

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Out here “at” Hanson because there is no town to be “in,” this cold December night’s scintillating circumpolar stars streak through the heavens as they arc about the North Star leaving 468 seconds (that’s 1.95 degrees of angle, for you star buffs) of trails carved into space and time. It’s 04:24, and what hubristic Northern Pacific land-grabbers had hoped would become a thriving community as its built-in-the-very-late 1800’s Central Washington branch line was surveyed to serve the expectant rise of hamlet Hanson never materialized. Save for the Aermotor well tower sans its windmill and vane of the lone long-vanished homestead, more likely, the lonely outpost for the former elevator operator and family just across the county road from the two sets of elevators and “station” sign are all that tangibly mark Hanson as an actual place. At 2110 feet, some plus or minus 200 feet higher than the two whistle-stops a few mile poles down either direction of clickety-clack, the elevators are still served from time-to-time as the scene at hand shows and glows red from the flashing EOT hanging on the shadow of a five-car-cut of covered hoppers leaving the Hanson elevator track being picked up by the westbound Washington Eastern Scoot Train. The cars will be set out at Hartline only to be brought east for unloading with the next eastbound Scoot Train on account Hanson’s east switch having been removed due to damage years ago making it safer and easier to move the loads west, then east. Indeed, “through hardship to the stars,” the Central Washington has survived through two mergers, several owners and operators, with the most recent operator, Washington Eastern of the Western Group, granted a 10-year operating agreement by CW owner WSDOT to breath new life into the venerable line. (© 04Dec18)

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Peace!

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Another view from Meadow View Nature Area.

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“What Causes Us to Marvel at the Stars: Our Curiosity, Our Creation, Our Creator?”

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Ursa Major (The Great She-Bear), better known as the “Big Dipper,” sprawls across the pure early evening Northern Hemisphere as Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad SD45-2 328 seems to be chasing it through the darkness with its searching headlight near Cemetery Road just west of sleepy, like Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” hamlet, Davenport. (27Nov17 ©)

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🍳🍔 Empire Diner is one of the last free-standing diners left in Manhattan and is located inside a 1946 Fodero Dining Car. It closed in 2015, after a second failed attempt to revive it. This photo was taken in 2009 before the #miniature stainless steel stylized #Empire State Building @empirestatebldg replica was removed from its roof. Photo and full interview with former owner Carolyn Benitez appear in our book "New York Nights". #storefront #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signgeeks #typevstime #signcollective #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #igs_nyc #guardiancities #reportagespotlight #myfeatureshoot

S&S Diner on the edge of the #Wynwood Arts District in Miami was established in 1938. The #diner had a horseshoe-shaped counter with stool seating that held only 18 people. There were no private tables or booths and was cash only serving just breakfast ☕️🍳 or lunch 🍔🍟. Unfortunately the #vintage diner was forced to close in 2016 after the land it is located on was sold for $33 million to a real estate developer. Sadly another victim of this neighborhood's #gentrifcation. #miami #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #typography #dailytype #storefront #typevstime #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #signcollective #signage